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Choose among a selection of thousands of villas and hotels, add food, activities, and transportation in one click. Don’t delay your next offsite; make it happen today.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76274&key=user_uploads/707520/27bfaff0-7165-436e-8b54-630a0605f1b5)\n\n**Problem**\n\nAll team offsites require the same ingredients: accommodation, food, activity, and transportation. Unfortunately, today no platform exists to do everything in one place, and you end up spending hours looking for an affordable house or a hotel close to the airport. Then you have to make 50 phone calls to find a good catering company, activity, and so on. 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Make offsite planning a breeze with TeamOut!\n\nHi everyone! We're Thomas and Vincent, co-founders of TeamOut. ⛷ 🛶\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70601&key=user_uploads/707520/16736d39-f752-4d1a-be11-c46165c55697)\n\n### 🤔 Why are we the right ones to work on this?\n\n[Thomas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-mazimann), a former professional kayaker, has spent his life designing unforgettable experiences and adventures that bring people together. He was an early employee at Voxeet, contributing to their acquisition by (NYSE: DOLBY).\n\n[Vincent](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincent-albouy-71132a92/), a former professional ski athlete and software engineer, has traveled to 50 countries and built large-scale applications for startups ([Vant.ai](http://Vant.ai)) and enterprise employers (IBM).\n\n### ❌ What's the problem?\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70601&key=user_uploads/707520/7da530d7-45b8-432b-9836-83ca8901beab)\n\nPlanning team offsites is often a headache. 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We'll help you get *lots* of them in economy or business ", "body": "# **TL;DR**\n\n[Pointhound](https://pointhound.com) helps you earn and redeem your credit card points for free flights to amazing destinations 🛫🏝️🗼\n\nIf you’re like us and like the idea of getting free flights _for free_, read on! 👇\n\n# **🤫 The situation — and a big secret**\n\n120m Americans have credit cards, but almost none of us know how to use them or which one(s) to get. We think that cash back cards are the best because they give us, well, cash back.\n\nThe reality is, instead of cash back, earning **points** when you spend will get you _far, far_ greater ROI than cash back — upwards of 10-15x, in fact, when you use your points to book flights.\n\nBook flights with points, you say? How do I do that? Great question: by **transferring** **your points** from your credit card portal (like Amex) to an airline (like Delta) and booking with an airline.\n\nExample: let’s say you found a flight that retails for $1000. If you booked that flight through your credit card’s travel portal, it would cost you 100,000 points (or $0.01 per point — the industry standard). By transferring your points from your credit card’s portal to the airline flying the route, it might only cost you 90,000 points. Not bad.\n\nBut If you booked the Delta flight through their partner, Air France-KLM’s website, **it might only cost you 10,000 points** — 10x cheaper!\n\n_Yup, really._\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/Ybt3eTOD1Q5hY_qPmvTpU0Zr7PRHjgPk-esFb3v5pENdVIscLo6Nx1UQmHWCtw09Xl7m_Se3vOw4U-jXu-l7ChWZlejksxzGW-q-NmmL7Hm9YO5ECgCUfjRvBkq6TKvypbtIQpBDP0ozp8En53VjWSw)\n\n# **❌ The problem**\n\nOk, so now we understand that earning points are better than cash back, let’s talk about the problem:\n\n* Figuring out which point-earning credit card(s) to sign up for is complex.\n* Knowing which card you should use to maximize the points you **earn** is even more complex.\n* And figuring out how to **redeem** your hard-earned points for good, no, _great_ value may be the most complex.\n\nSure, there are the blogs and content-heavy websites that _try_ to help you navigate the world of points. But they require you to read and digest thousands of full-length articles to understand what to do.\n\nAnd there are a few companies who have built flight search tools for points, but none seem to holistically address the complexities of both **earning** points and **redeeming** those points. Oh, and they also charge you a monthly fee.\n\n# **✅ The solution — Pointhound**\n\n[Pointhound](http://pointhound.com) is a _completely free_ way to help you earn and redeem your points for free flights 🏝️☀️\n\nOur goal is simple: to simplify the complex world of credit card points and airline miles. We do this by providing our users with a few delightfully designed tools. Our tools help you:\n\n**Redeem your points**. Not sure how to use your hard-earned credit card points? You’re in luck! Our flight search engine searches over 140 airlines at once and surfaces incredible deals using your points and miles. And our [Top Flight Deals](https://pointhound.com/explore) page shows you the cheapest flights from your home airport to destinations all over the world.\n\nWe then tell you where you should transfer your points from (ex. Chase) and to (ex. Air France-KLM Flying Blue) to get the absolute best deal using your points.\n\nFor example, I just booked a flight from SFO to Tokyo in business class for only 60,000 points, when the retail price was $6500 – more than 10 times cheaper when booking with points! _Now you can too._\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/G-JvDBpItFU2r2HzbXVzxX3jmIAv9YP8nluGgDZ5aFrRdvs20-jrNVTM6ygH38DBfCst80WZOCxapnecQY207t-7zeaHSbkQIJk26v39PM_3QJWNfWmVsxv4NYv8faNMhB12r7c7n7h7xS8xQmS79yo)\n\n**Earn more points**. Newly obsessed with finding and booking free flights and want to get more points? Our personalized credit card algorithm helps you get the right card(s) for you so you can maximize the points you earn (and free flights you can get).\n\nOur goal is to equip the “points beginners” – many of us who have a card or two and would like a simple product to help us earn and redeem our points for free flights.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/1Q51EUtGWI6LLfJtSPthI-q2QN2dSowTFKu_D8_KX5k957PRhe73c01FhSiEKK9wrrA2jymjG-bA-gUk5n91Ym-_-uV8Ywp9JkfrAlZMPWtgxot1uGm3BbNvMUZsEZh3i3B6CtFuWehXmDhbXKfk8eQ)\n\n# **👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Why us**\n\nWe’re a mix of point junkies _and_ point beginners. We understand our user, because we _are_ our user.\n\nWe can relate, but we also ask questions and listen. Learning from our users directly is critical.\n\nWe’ve seen industries in need of a shake up — we’ve been here before. Our founding team previously founded and built the consumer startup, [Feather](https://livefeather.com/), a YC S17 company, where we raised $75 million from Kleiner, Bain and NEA, and sold the business.\n\n* [Jay Reno](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayjreno/) 👨‍✈️ - Co-founder & CEO\n* [Jake Malone](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakemalone/) 👨‍🏫 - Co-founder & CTO\n* [Samantha Clark](https://www.linkedin.com/in/clarksamantha/) 👩‍🎨 - Co-founder & CPO, Design, Brand\n* [Jeffrey Flynn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreynflynn/) 👨‍💻 - Founding Engineer\n\nWe’re combining our consumer experience building Feather with our passion for travel to build a once-in-a-generation travel business.\n\n# \n\n# **🙏 Asks**\n\n1. Find and book yourself a [free flight](https://www.pointhound.com/explore). _Is that a real ask?_ It sure is.\n2. Share with your friends who you think might love booking free flights! _Thanks in advance_.\n3. Please share feedback by sending an email to [founders@pointhound.com.](mailto:founders@pointhound.com) _But, like, pls don’t spam_ 🤞.\n\nWe’ve made Pointhound free for everyone, so if you find this at all valuable, your support and upvotes would be super valuable and motivating for us.\n\nHappy (free) flying! 🛫☀️", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JsZ-pointhound-earn-and-redeem-credit-card-points-for-free-flights", "votes": 81, "created_at": "2023-11-28T15:00:18.920Z" } ] }, { "id": 29093, "name": "Roame", "slug": "roame", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7f2575793e5340c7b238109e6ddb277c072e9469.png", "website": "https://roame.travel/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Roame is flight search engine design for credit card points and miles. 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Yet, the process to redeem those points for outsized-valued flights is quite convoluted. Everyone wants to redeem an international first class ticket for 70K points, but few know how and the process can take up to 30 hours to fully optimize. Experts know the tricks of redeeming points, but most people, including frequent flyers, do not.\n\n### **⭐️ Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72364&key=user_uploads/1214689/fde7241e-261f-4e2e-8376-0834cd643e38)\n\nOur First Class Japan Airlines flight from Tokyo to San Francisco, booked for just 70K miles each using [**Roame**](https://roame.travel/)!\n\n[**Tim Qin**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/timqin/) **(CEO)** is a points and miles geek. He spent the last 10 years as a successful investor and operator in internet travel, financial services, and ad-tech companies, earning more than a hundred million for clients.\n\n[**Zi Liu**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ziyuanliu/) **(CTO)** is a full-stack software engineer. He was most recently in charge of Airbnb’s encryption services, creating and managing billions of cryptographic requests.\n\n### **❌ Problem**\n\n1. **Data** access is limited and fragmented for points redemptions. What you find on the travel portals are oftentimes not the best deals.\n2. **Time-consuming** to find flights and hotels to book using points. Can take up to 30 hours per trip to search across multiple loyalty programs to take advantage of complicated award redemption rules and that’s just for 1 ticket.\n3. **Underutilization** of points and miles leading to dissatisfaction and churn. 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We remove the complexity of management so managers can focus on providing great hospitality. \n\nHi everyone, we’re Punn and Cole, the founders of [HostAI](https://www.hostai.app/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78716&key=user_uploads/1382533/4b1e29ef-79e7-4bac-9b2c-e335b5377539)\n\n[Punn:](https://www.linkedin.com/in/punnkam/) Ex-Google engineer and proptech builder.\n\n[Cole:](https://www.linkedin.com/in/colerubin/) Vacation rental manager and real estate developer. \n\n❌ **Problem:** Vacation rental management is hard\n\nIt’s like operating 50 different hotel rooms spread across an entire region. Each property requires its own processes, rules, and team members. Managers use 5-10 different third-party apps to manage everything effectively.\n\nA fragmented tech stack creates multiple failure points for something to get missed, which can negatively impact the guest experience (i.e. the door code didn’t get updated before their check-in).\n\n✅ **Our Solution:** Compound Software\n\nHostAI aggregates information and builds native tools that make managing easier. 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However, they are unable to collect payments, continue to operate manually, lack access to financial services, and booking systems are 60% less efficient due to weak payment infrastructures.\\\n\\\n[Triply](https://business.triply.co/) assists these businesses in collecting payments, automating their operations, and then uses this data to provide them with financial services. We also assist them in increasing their revenue by selling their services on our marketplace, which is designed to match the needs of the local travel market.\n\n—\n\nHi people, we’re [Peter](https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-wachira-trippi/) and [Collins!](https://www.linkedin.com/in/collins-muthinja-trippi/)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79844&key=user_uploads/600569/c376d924-cae2-4556-9972-ed512170dd78)\n\nPeter - 2x founder, ran one of the leading vacation rental management companies in East Africa.\n\nCollins - Led teams and built products in leading Fintech and insuretech startups in Africa.\n\n### the opportunity\n\nAfrica is a $300 billion dollar travel market and one of the fastest-growing travel markets globally.\n\nToday 66% of travel spend on the continent comes from domestic travelers.\n\n**Our Position;** Triply not only helps businesses automate their operations & collect payments, we also help them get bookings through our marketplace, allowing us to uniquely tap into the $198 billion dollar domestic market. Our ability to generate revenue for the businesses we serve has also seen our product become more sticky.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79844&key=user_uploads/600569/d42e0dfa-984b-4c3b-b7d7-d45e2d39d123)\n\nB2B Tools; [**Triply Business**](https://business.triply.co/)\n\n* Accounting\n* Payroll\n* Unified inbox (all your messages under one platform)\n* Payments processing\n* Wallet (Muti currency coming soon)\n* Analytics\n* Channel management system\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79844&key=user_uploads/600569/673e77f7-43d0-4750-b2b5-be6a21ac2ae9)\n\n[**Triply Travel ;**](https://triply.co/)\n\n**OUR ASK ;**\n\n* If you know anyone within your network who has built travel tech businesses before, please introduce us through [founders@triply.co](mailto:founders@triply.co).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Klo-triply-the-operating-system-for-travel-businesses-in-africa", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2024-04-01T15:41:40.850Z" } ] }, { "id": 29440, "name": "Rove", "slug": "rove", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7ce5fb2bc6ecc51b550577fdf7ed50f0b62b585d.png", "website": "https://rove.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Earn flexible airline miles on booking travel, shopping, and dining, all on top of your credit card rewards.", "one_liner": "Earn airline miles on hotels and everyday spend.", "team_size": 32, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Travel, Leisure and Tourism", "launched_at": 1701568382, "tags": [ "Consumer", "Travel", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Travel, Leisure and Tourism" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rove", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/rove.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/rovemiles/", "x_url": "https://x.com/rovemiles", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/rove-6429", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7ce5fb2bc6ecc51b550577fdf7ed50f0b62b585d.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tom Blomfield", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tom-blomfield" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 815885, "full_name": "Max Morganroth", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Founder at Rove | Wharton Entrepreneurship", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/maxmorganroth", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/maxmorganroth", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/df6ed5633e1fbb63197ce2efe9dfe11a1ae2c16f.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1650726, "full_name": "Arhan Chhabra", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Founder at Rove | Harvard CS & Economics", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/arhanchhabra", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8388bf85862f74b6a0d0e119dd36d9824cdfcbe1.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 63606, "title": "Software Engineer (Mid to Senior)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rove/jobs/WOiFl9H-software-engineer-mid-to-senior", "location": "New York, NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Backend", "salary_range": "$150K - $300K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.50%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Amazon Web Services (AWS)", "Git", "Node.js", "React Native", "Redis", "TypeScript", "Software Security", "Next.js", "LLMs", "AI Agents", "NestJS" ] }, { "id": 102248, "title": "Growth Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rove/jobs/bJWUbv2-growth-engineer", "location": "New York, NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$150K - $200K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.30%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 89835, "title": "Rove: Travel the world for free", "tagline": "Earn Rove Miles—the first ever universal airline mile.", "body": "**TLDR:** Rove Miles is the first universal airline mile program. Earn up to 25x miles on everyday spend, hotel stays, flights, and through partner programs—all on top of your existing credit card rewards. Then, redeem those miles effortlessly across 12 global loyalty programs, 140+ airlines, and 200,000+ hotels at up to 90% off.\n\n[https://youtu.be/LsYKowedGn4](https://youtu.be/LsYKowedGn4?feature=shared)\n\nHey everyone! We're [Max](https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxmorganroth/) and [Arhan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/arhanchhabra/), founders of [Rove](http://rovemiles.com), and we're excited to launch the first universal travel loyalty program that works across almost every airline and hotel in the world.\n\nBefore Rove, we founded startups at Wharton and Harvard—connecting people through specialized Bluetooth software and revolutionizing edtech recruiting. Between scaling businesses and attending class, we traveled to over 50 countries for free in business and first class, leveraging credit card points and loyalty transfers. But our friends? They were stuck on the sidelines, locked out by complicated rules, outdated credit requirements, and high fees.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89835&key=user_uploads/815885/c7172baa-a6d9-48fd-89c4-deb60b29c891)\n\n_Arhan and Max_\n\n### **The Problem: Gaps in Accessibility and Usability**\n\nTravel rewards today exclude millions, especially young people. Over 70 million Americans can't access premium travel credit cards, leaving a majority of Gen Z—the generation most eager to travel—unable to earn a meaningful number of miles and points across airline and hotel loyalty programs, which provide discounts of up to 90% compared to standard credit card travel portals. Unlike markets like Hong Kong and Singapore, where earning miles is easy and part of everyday life, Americans face unnecessary complexity and high barriers.\n\n### **Our Solution: Rove Miles**\n\nRove Miles makes travel accessible and rewarding for everyone. We've unified 12 major international loyalty programs into a single, universal currency that's easy to earn (always on top of your existing credit card rewards) and simple to redeem:\n\n* Earn miles on over 7,000 merchants by activating the [Rove Shopping](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/rove-shopping/jkklhhheomgefgljanpobgabooknjlbf?authuser=0&hl=en) chrome extension before your purchase.\n* Earn up to 25x miles on hotel bookings made through [Rove](https://rovemiles.com), which can be earned instantly for non-refundable stays to cover your flight there or add extra free nights.\n* Earn 3x bonus miles on flights on top of the miles you get from the airline when booking through [Rove](https://rovemiles.com).\n\nSoon, you'll also earn Rove Miles from dining, in-store purchases, and transferring existing points in from partner programs.\n\n### **Rove’s Transfer Partners**\n\nRove’s initial loyalty program partners are:\n\n* Air France-KLM Flying Blue\n* Air India Maharaja Club\n* Accor Live Limitless\n* Aeromexico Rewards\n* Cathay Pacific Asia Miles\n* Etihad Guest\n* Finnair Plus\n* Hainan Airlines Fortune Wings Club\n* Vietnam Airlines Lotusmiles\n* Qatar Airways Privilege Club\n* Thai Airways Royal Orchid Plus\n* Turkish Airlines Miles&Smiles\n\nMore programs are coming soon, with our current partnerships covering all three major airline alliances. With Rove Miles, your points become 2-3x more valuable compared to traditional credit card redemptions, even on hotels where high-value redemptions can be even harder to find. Soon, you will be able to use miles on unique travel experiences, such as events, festivals, private jet charters, or flying in zero gravity!\n\n### **Join Us on This Journey**\n\nWe're building Rove Miles to make free annual vacations accessible to everyone, effortlessly. Stop missing out—turn your everyday spend into unforgettable travel experiences.\n\nStay tuned,\n\nMax and Arhan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NMx-rove-travel-the-world-for-free", "votes": 20, "created_at": "2025-04-24T17:36:05.224Z" }, { "id": 79108, "title": "Rove: Travel the world for free", "tagline": "The first travel credit card for Generation Z.", "body": "**TLDR:** Rove is the only travel credit card for young adults, leveraging cash-flow underwriting and the first-ever travel points portal to allow the average Gen Z spender to effortlessly travel the world for free.\n\nHey everyone! We're [Max](https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxmorganroth/) and [Arhan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/arhanchhabra/), founders of [Rove](https://linkedin.com/company/rovecard/), and we're thrilled to introduce the first travel credit card for young adults. Our journeys began at Wharton and Harvard, where we built ventures around specialized Bluetooth software to connect people at events and a B2B edtech recruiting platform for schools and startups. We scaled our ventures by day and slept on planes by night, traveling the world for free.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79108&key=user_uploads/815885/cf150984-2142-40ce-b084-59f3848706f9)\n\n_Arhan and Max_\n\nDespite travel-hacking our way to over 50 countries, none of our friends could do the same. The barriers? Stringent credit requirements based on outdated underwriting algorithms (FICO), ludicrous fees, and antiquated software systems turned the dream of free travel into a complicated puzzle. We may have been able to hack the system, but we always wished for one that didn’t need to be hacked and rewarded users by default instead.\n\n### **The Problem: Gaps in Accessibility and Usability**\n\nRight now, the travel credit card market fails to serve the people who want to travel the most. Existing cards are like computers were in the early 2000s: they work, but they’re expensive, many people can’t access them, and even those who can struggle to use them without help. We’re building the iPhone of travel cards—one that’s easy to use, readily accessible, and seamlessly intuitive. These two market inefficiencies create one of the best opportunities in consumer credit in decades.\n\n### **Our Solution: Rove**\n\nRove is here to democratize reward travel, finally offering the first-ever no-annual-fee travel card for Gen Z. We use advanced algorithms and data aggregation systems to underwrite users in a radically more accessible way. By using people’s cash flow from connecting to their banks, as opposed to outdated data points like mortgages and decades of credit history, we can more accurately underwrite an entirely untapped demographic of users.\n\nBut we didn't stop there—we want reward travel to not only be available to young adults but easy to use too. Our platform introduces the first-ever portal for direct redemption of airline loyalty deals, making the process of traveling the world for free as effortless as it should be. With our alliance of partner airlines, the average Gen Z spender can earn a free annual trip overseas. Soon after our card launch, we’re leveraging better data and software technology to maximize user rewards across an accessible suite of financial products.\n\n### **Experience Rove**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79108&key=user_uploads/815885/bd0013cf-e9b8-4bff-a03f-719f6ebcf17a)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79108&key=user_uploads/815885/6379bf8f-ebfb-4d4f-99e6-e36ba1f54d4c)\n\n### **Join Us on This Journey**\n\nWe're on a mission to make the world more accessible to young adults everywhere by building a financial suite of products geared toward travel. In the short term, that’s our travel card. In the long term, it’s about expanding access to products globally that allow users to travel based on their spending and savings, leveraging our data flywheel to better underwrite the billions of underbanked people across the world.\n\nIf you're tired of missing out on travel opportunities because of credit barriers or complex points systems, Rove is for you. For now, our [waitlist](https://rovecard.com) is only available through the invite code _YCLAUNCH._ The first users to sign up will receive a Founders Edition of Rove.\n\nStay tuned,\n\nMax and Arhan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KZw-rove-travel-the-world-for-free", "votes": 85, "created_at": "2024-03-06T15:07:48.320Z" } ] }, { "id": 29607, "name": "ProhostAI", "slug": "prohostai", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/069321145273b85ba7d87787840c61562c041b8f.png", "website": "https://www.prohost.ai/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "ProhostAI is building an AI Property Manager for short-term rental hosts on Airbnb and other platforms. Our team consists of an ex-Airbnb Staff Data Scientist and Dropbox Sr Software Engineer who are also Superhosts with 9 properties worth $15M making $1.5M/yr.", "one_liner": "AI Property Manager for Airbnb & Short-Term Rental Hosts", "team_size": 5, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1722581917, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Travel", "AI", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/prohostai", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/prohostai.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/prohostai", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/prohostai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/prohostai", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/069321145273b85ba7d87787840c61562c041b8f.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Garry Tan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/garry-tan" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1847372, "full_name": "Bill Ulammandakh", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CEO at ProhostAI. Previously Staff Data Scientist at Airbnb, Etsy, Thumbtack and Wayfair. Harvard undergrad.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/bulam/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/bilguunu", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c5b1132f4d19cd96295cfd328da8dbc1171b3751.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1847465, "full_name": "Andrew Lawson", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CTO at ProhostAI. Previously Software Engineer at Dropbox, JWPlayer, and others.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/aeriklawson/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/878fe6c85fddbb90bc9ac6505c46283c5aaca110.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 68411, "title": "Founding Engineer, Full Stack", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/prohostai/jobs/E50Yl4C-founding-engineer-full-stack", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$100K - $180K", "equity_range": "0.20% - 2.00%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 101922, "title": "ProhostAI 🏨 AI Employees for Property Management and Hospitality", "tagline": "Meet ProhostAI — AI employees that answer guests, take calls, coordinate cleanings, create tasks, build guidebooks, and run hospitality operations from one AI-native OS.", "body": "Hi YC! I’m Bill from the ProhostAI team.\n\n**TL;DR:** We're launching AI employees for property management and hospitality. They answer guests, take calls, coordinate cleanings, create tasks, build guidebooks, drive bookings, and help run operations — from one AI-native OS. 8,000+ properties on the platform today. Founded by a team from Airbnb, Dropbox, and Guesty (Harvard + Yale) — and we're property managers ourselves, running a $12M AUM portfolio. Backed by Y Combinator, Pear VC, and other investors. [Try it →](https://prohost.ai/ai-employees)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101922&key=user_uploads/1847372/9e218d0a-16c5-4285-8de3-e6374d1ad16b)\n\n## The problem\n\nProperty management and hospitality teams still run operations through a tangled stack: inboxes, PMS tools, spreadsheets, phone calls, manual coordination, and a dozen point solutions that don't talk to each other.\n\nThe \"AI\" in this space today is mostly chatbots that answer guest messages. That's a feature, not a workforce.\n\n## What we built\n\nProhostAI's AI employees do real operational work — alongside the humans running the business. They can:\n\n* **Answer guests** across Airbnb, Vrbo, [Booking.com](http://Booking.com), SMS, WhatsApp, email — omnichannel and context-aware\n* **Take and place phone calls**\n* **Create and assign tasks** to teammates\n* **Coordinate cleaners** and schedule turnovers\n* **Power guidebooks** for properties and businesses\n* **Drive bookings and upsells**\n* **Keep human teammates aligned** across operations\n* **Run AI workflows** across the operational lifecycle\n\nOne AI-native OS — built so human teams and AI employees can work side by side.\n\n## The AI employees available for hire:\n\nOur AI employees are available across different professions:\n\n* **Gabby** — Guest Experience Manager\n* **Claudia** — Cleaning Manager\n* **Miles** — Maintenance Manager\n* **Rex** — Revenue Optimizer and PriceLabs auditor\n* **Owen** — Owner Relations Manager\n* **Regina** — Reputation Manager\n* **Grace** — Guidebook Manager\n* **Finn** — Finance Manager\n* **Quinn** — Quality Inspector\n* **Gina** — General Manager\n* **Vera** — Virtual Assistant\n\nHire the ones you need; add more as you scale.\n\n## MCP — bring your own agents\n\nWe ship an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, so other AI agents — Claude, ChatGPT, custom in-house agents — can collaborate directly with the ProhostAI AI employees. If you've already built AI workflows, plug them in instead of starting over.\n\n## Why now\n\nThe next generation of hospitality companies will be run by human teams working side by side with AI employees. We're starting with short-term rentals because the work is high-volume, repetitive, and deeply operational — exactly where AI teammates make an immediate difference.\n\nFrom there: vacation rental managers, boutique hotels, broader hospitality and property operations.\n\n## Traction\n\nProhostAI now supports **8,000+ properties on the platform**, including paid customers and operators using our feature-rich free plan. Founded by a team from **Airbnb, Dropbox, and Guesty** (Harvard + Yale alumni) — and we're property managers ourselves, running a **$12M AUM short-term rental portfolio**. We use ProhostAI every day. Backed by **Y Combinator, Pear VC, and other investors**.\n\n## Our backstory\n\nWe've been deep in this space and have watched operators copy-paste the same messages thousands of times, miss calls overnight, lose cleanings to chaos, and string together five tools to do what one OS should handle. We built ProhostAI to make AI employees the new labor layer for hospitality — not another dashboard, not another inbox.\n\n## Our ask\n\n* **If you run STR, vacation rentals, or hospitality ops** — connect Airbnb or your PMS and your first AI employee can start helping in minutes: [prohost.ai/ai-employees](https://prohost.ai/ai-employees)\n* **If you know property managers, hosts, or hospitality teams** who'd benefit — please share or intro\n* **If you want to chat** — DM me on Bookface or email [bill@prohost.ai](mailto:bill@prohost.ai)\n* **For press/media:** [press kit (logos, screenshots, GIFs)](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kQEauMZYT4H-fXADYS9bNvgHQ1AjBN7q?usp=sharing)\n\nThanks YC 🚀\n\n— Bill & the ProhostAI team", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QVu-prohostai-ai-employees-for-property-management-and-hospitality", "votes": 3, "created_at": "2026-05-25T14:48:51.997Z" }, { "id": 83739, "title": "ProhostAI - AI property manager for Airbnb hosts", "tagline": "AI property manager assistant for hosts on Airbnb and other booking platforms.", "body": "[**ProhostAI**](https://www.prohost.ai/) **is an AI property manager assistant for hosts on Airbnb and other booking platforms.**  We run 9 Airbnb properties as Superhosts (4.99+ rating) worth $15M, and our AI automations have already cut our own costs by 30% and automated 70% of guest communications.\n\n**Our key features:**\n\n* **AI for Guest Communications:** AI agent drafts responses to every guest message\n* **AI for Maintenance Ticketing & Cleaning Management**\n* **AI for Revenue Generation** with automated guest upsells\n\nAll of this with a first class mobile app, because most hosts manage their properties from their phones!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83739&key=user_uploads/1847372/efb9d4f7-c541-47e8-9c1f-505cdfff39c1)\n\n### Our Founding Team\n\n[**Bill**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bulam/)\n\n* **Bill was a Staff Data Scientist, Algorithms at Airbnb for 6+ years, building AI & ML products** \n * 3 AI patents for products implemented at Airbnb that drove hundreds of millions in revenue\n* 9+ years total in data science (Etsy, Wayfair, Thumbtack)\n* Undergrad from Harvard\n\n[**Andrew**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aeriklawson/)\n\n* **Andrew was a Sr Software Engineer at Dropbox for 6+ years,** working on their API Platform handling millions of requests per second \n* 9+ years as a software engineer\n\nWe are Airbnb hosts with 9 properties, 4.99+ ratings across 1000+ guest reviews, and $1.5M/yr revenue. We've been hosts for 5+ years.\n\n### Why we are building ProhostAI\n\n* **70% of things a host has to do can be automated with no intervention today**\n * Guest communications, cleaning coordination & communication, and maintenance ticket management are repetitive and simple tasks ripe for automation with LLMs and AI agents with a high-quality mobile-first experience.\n* **80%+ of hosts use no SaaS tools yet** but are ready to professionalize their operations with better tools.\n* **Airbnb hosts are digitally native, working from their mobile phones all the time**, and highly likely to adopt new technologies to improve their operations.\n* **SaaS for hosts is a $5B market** with 10 million short-term rental listings globally!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83739&key=user_uploads/1847372/219c2d72-5762-4e81-981e-1316c2390e94)\n\n## **🚀Asks**\n\n1. **If you are a host, join our waitlist at** [**prohost.ai**](https://www.prohost.ai) or shoot me an email at [bill@prohost.ai](mailto:bill@prohost.ai)!\n2. **Share our website with others hosts** and have them join our waitlist!\n3. **Follow us on **[**LinkedIn**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/prohostai/)** and **[**X**](https://x.com/prohostAI)**.**\n4. **If you are using Hostaway or Guesty for Pros to manage your properties,** we can get you set up right away! Sign up for a free trial [**here**](https://app.prohost.ai/register) or [**book a demo**](https://calendly.com/bill-prohost/prohostai-demo) ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lmd-prohostai-ai-property-manager-for-airbnb-hosts", "votes": 35, "created_at": "2024-09-04T15:36:31.502Z" } ] }, { "id": 29654, "name": "Stardrift", "slug": "stardrift", "former_names": [ "Kopfkino", "Moonglow" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/509f2048cdd77eab05ee8a3d68e8bbc31e9d9af1.png", "website": "https://stardrift.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Stardrift is an AI travel planner. 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We’re launching first to allow users to pay in Southeast & East Asian markets.\n\n[Join our waitlist for early access.](https://moretapay.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83432&key=user_uploads/1269607/0d6b9a4c-2d2c-46e2-95b1-21fd57ee2057)\n\n❌ **THE PROBLEM**\n\nWhen traveling abroad, do you find yourself asking if merchants accept card? How much cash do you need? Where can you get the best rate?\n\nPayments around the world are very fragmented and rely heavily on cash, or an alternative like QR code digital wallets.\n\nAnd for foreigners traveling, this typically means you need some combination of card and cash. In many countries, merchants may not accept card payments, and when they do, they often charge extra fees. Cash payments can also be costly due to high foreign exchange and ATM fees.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83432&key=user_uploads/1269607/6c9f3c8a-495a-4448-a550-1c38341b7d9b)\n\n✅ **THE SOLUTION**\n\nMoreta simplifies payments for international travelers, letting you pay like a local using just your phone. Users download Moreta, upload documentation verifying their identity, connect their bank account to load funds, and pay, all within minutes.\n\nMoreta will launch first in the Southeast and East Asian markets. Users can scan existing merchant QR codes and pay like locals.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83432&key=user_uploads/1269607/b9991f8b-9fe0-4106-8601-c17aaa1bb2e5)\n\n👥 **THE TEAM**\n\nWalid (CEO) and Sam (CTO) have been friends since high school. \n\n[Walid](https://www.linkedin.com/in/walidmahd/) was a payments consultant at Mastercard Advisors and experienced the payment pains of an international traveler when he backpacked through Southeast & Eastern Asia. \n\n[Sam](https://linkedin.com/in/yu-sam) was previously the Head of Research & Development at Stems and developed the Instagram web search feature used by over 50 million people.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lhg-moreta-payments-made-easy-for-international-travelers", "votes": 70, "created_at": "2024-08-26T20:56:57.937Z" } ] }, { "id": 30112, "name": "Vaya", "slug": "vaya", "former_names": [ "Purge", "Fix AI", "Candid", "BookMyFlight" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1ba9e1699223ad05f5f5256e9857a9efd08cf0f5.png", "website": "https://flyvaya.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "", "one_liner": "Discover your next vacation for less.", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Travel, Leisure and Tourism", "launched_at": 1730227120, "tags": [ "Consumer", "Travel" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Travel, Leisure and Tourism" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vaya", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2024/vaya.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1ba9e1699223ad05f5f5256e9857a9efd08cf0f5.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/c7da9fc12c21d1efd32346b02cec167635aa8da9.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Diana Hu", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/diana-hu" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1833417, "full_name": "Arav Seth", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "flyvaya.com", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/aravseth", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/2a7ac05068d55136bd93d40efd491e2a9f8301e8.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1155041, "full_name": "Kesav Kosana", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "check out vaya on the app store!", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "https://x.com/kesavkosana", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7c73ae6986a8ea211324b39df6b1bdedb7d0a174.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [] }, { "id": 30282, "name": "Riviera", "slug": "riviera", "former_names": [ "With Riviera" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/790dbe46b89475fab7c527c1403f9dcbd5c92c33.png", "website": "https://www.withriviera.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Riviera builds AI Employees for Hotels. Our first agent is a hotel phone receptionist that lets hotels spend less time answering phone calls and more time helping customers. Our system handles front-desk inquiries, in-room dining orders, and reservations. It answers every question instantly and in any language, 24/7.\r\n\r\nWe are solving a problem that older phone systems and IVRs can't: customers hate not being able to talk to someone immediately, but most travel businesses can’t dedicate additional staff to manage phone lines. Voice AI has always seemed out of reach because the technology infrastructure in the travel industry is often fragmented, with reservation systems, loyalty programs, and in-house operations software that weren’t designed with voice AI in mind. Riviera addresses this by integrating seamlessly with existing software providers and using human-sounding voice models that are highly trained on data specific to each business type and department.\r\n\r\nHotels spend hundreds of billions annually on staffing and risk losing potential revenue when phone lines are overwhelmed or callers hang up. 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Riviera solves this with AI voice agents that provide 24/7 phone agents that speak any major language: answering guest questions, ordering room service, making reservations, and redirecting calls as needed.\n\n---\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nHotels spend over 100 billion dollars per year on staffing. Front-desk staff spend valuable time on phones instead of handling high-touch guest services. Meanwhile, guests frustrated by long waits or old IVR menus often hang up, leading to lost revenue and poor reviews.\n\n### **Our Solution**\n\nRiviera’s AI voice agents manage unlimited calls instantly. We integrate with property management systems, reservations, and ticketing software so guests can:\n\n* **Get quick answers** **about hotel services and policies**\n* **Order in-room dining and other amenities**\n* **Check availability and make reservations**\n\nRiviera has a human-sounding voice model trained on each hotel’s unique data to understand it better than any staff member ever could.\\\n\\\n\\\n\\*\\*Want to see a live demo or talk pilots?\\*\\*\\\n\\\nYou can schedule a demo by visiting [**withriviera.com**](http://withriviera.com). Feel free to email me directly at [**shaun@withriviera.com**](mailto:shaun@withriviera.com).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87705&key=user_uploads/683820/c11e9839-f110-4546-902f-907840b8d6f4)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87705&key=user_uploads/683820/7e4c67a5-facf-41b1-9595-1605bcffdf14)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mob-riviera-multilingual-ai-voice-agents-for-hotels", "votes": 29, "created_at": "2025-02-14T23:57:29.263Z" } ] }, { "id": 30732, "name": "Humoniq", "slug": "humoniq", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/dd360d85931a0845b568ab55a8dd586fb4c3941c.png", "website": "https://humoniq.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Humoniq is fully automating customer support for travel & transport industries, which outsource $20B of customer support each year. 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Instead of massive offshore teams, Humoniq runs on AI agents delivering faster, cheaper, more helpful service.\n\nWe previously built [Flightfox (YC S12)](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flightfox) where we grew revenue to over $22M annually, and ran support operations handling millions of customer interactions. That experience showed us how easily traditional outsourcing breaks under the pressure of travel’s unique demands, and gave us the conviction that AI is the only way to build something better.\n\n[**https://youtu.be/Fzlotm1gQzw**](https://youtu.be/Fzlotm1gQzw)\n\n# **❌ The Problem:**\n\nTravel and transport companies spend billions on outsourced customer support, and the experience for travelers is among the worst of any industry. Long waits and frustrating conversations with agents who are underpaid, poorly trained, and burned out by repetitive work are the norm. These failures aren’t accidents, they are the predictable outcome of how the system is built.\n\nTraditional business process outsourcing companies (BPOs) are designed to handle high-volume, repetitive work at lower cost than hiring a fully in-house team, but the tradeoffs in customer experience are steep. The model relies on large pools of low-wage, undertrained workers, and gaps in language or cultural context make interactions slower and less effective. For travelers, that means slow, inconsistent support and unresolved problems. For travel companies, it means unhappy customers.\n\n# **✅ The Solution:**\n\nWe’re replacing the old outsourcing model. Instead of relying on massive teams of low-wage human workers, we rely on voice and text AI agents that scale instantly, operate around the clock, and deliver consistent service every time.\n\nOur AI contact center covers both front-office support, for example, airlines handling flight changes, seat requests, or baggage questions, and also back-office tasks such as processing ticket exchanges, issuing refunds, and updating reservations. By automating both the customer conversations and the follow-up tasks, requests are resolved quickly and without handoffs.\n\nFor travelers, this means getting help right away and leaving with a resolution instead of frustration. For travel companies, it means keeping the efficiencies of outsourcing while finally delivering the level of service that makes customers happy.\n\n# **🙏 Our Ask:**\n\nOutsourcing is broken. It’s time to rebuild it with AI. If you know leaders at airlines, travel agencies, travel management companies, or large transport providers who care about customer experience, we’d love to chat. And if you’re an investor who wants to be part of replacing the old model, now’s the time.\n\nEmail: [**founders@humoniq.ai**](mailto:founders@humoniq.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OFd-humoniq-ai-contact-center-for-travel", "votes": 16, "created_at": "2025-08-21T19:06:49.717Z" } ] }, { "id": 33045, "name": "Axelrod", "slug": "axelrod", "former_names": [ "Axelrod Labs Inc", "Axelrod Labs" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7fbd96bca4da9de9db65dd46c8e36b9fdaa3e168.png", "website": "https://axelrodlabs.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Autonomous software for hotels that takes over all front-of-house and back-of-house tasks with zero integrations, running operations better than your staff would. 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Staff are occupied with menial administrative tasks that do not directly improve the guest experience. Small operators burn their own hours on it, large operators hire teams. Either way it kills time or margins. Existing software is just one more thing to manage, it doesn't do the work for you.\n\n\n\n**How we solve it**\n\nAxelrod maps the hotel's entire operation, then runs an agent workforce on top of it. The harness is purpose-built for hotel operations, powered by a memory layer that holds your property’s standard operating procedures and every guest’s history across stays, as well as an orchestration layer that breaks a request into tasks, routes each to the right role-agent and coordinates them across departments.\n\nWith computer- and browser-use, our agents drive the hotel's existing stack (PMS, POS, RMS) the way your staff do, with no MCPs, APIs, or integrations. That’s how Axelrod runs on the fragmented, legacy software real hotels actually use.\n\nAxelrod augments every single role in the hotel staff: one butler can cover 4x the rooms. Because each agent has full context, it can adequately assess guest needs and makes sure nothing falls through the cracks. Agents start fully supervised and earn autonomy as they prove themselves, so hotels hand over the operations at their own pace. \n\nWe’re trusted by Michelin-Key awarded hotels and live across four continents.\n\n**Why us**\n\nWe both grew up in the hospitality industry and have worked on both sides of the desk.\n\n**Our ask**\n\nIntros to executives at hotel management groups, luxury hotel owners and general managers as well as hotel CTOs/CIOs.\n\n**Contacts**\n\n[Adrian Lucas Tariel Stoica](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stoicaadrian/): \\\n[adrian@axelrod.live](mailto:adrian@axelrod.live) \\\n\\\n[Saman Sayahpour](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sayahpour/): \\\n[saman@axelrod.live](mailto:saman@axelrod.live)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/STC-axelrod-autonomous-agents-that-run-luxury-hotels", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2026-08-06T13:00:12.647Z" } ] } ]